Jauwairia NasirI am a doctoral candidate and a Marie Curie ITN Fellow in the field of Robotics at Computer-Human Interaction for Learning and Instruction Lab at EPFL where I currently work towards building Human-Robot Interaction technologies, leveraging AI, to help improve learning environments for kids. I did my Masters in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from KAIST, South Korea and my Bachelors in Electronics Engineering from School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (SEECS) NUST in Pakistan. During my Bachelors and Masters degrees, my research revolved around path planning algorithms for mobile robots and autonomous household robots for elderly, respectively.As the Women in AI (WAI) Education Lead in Switzerland, I organize WAI educational activities in the country such as WaiCAMPs and am also a part of WAI’s Global Education Task Force. I am passionate about causes such as safe and unbiased AI, education for all, and discrimination free society.
Fadi Atef BayoudFadi is a strategic management professional with over 20 years of experience. His work concentrates on advising companies and educational institutes on how to adapt to the 21st century complexity and how to overcome its disruptive nature by adopting innovative processes and technologies. Throughout his career, he assumed roles in academia, R&D, product management, marketing and business development, project management, operations and strategic management.
For the last three years, he has been developing advisory solutions for strategic management, where he has advised several CEO’s on how to strategically transform, navigate disruption, and succeed in the future through i) adopting fit-for-purpose strategies and ii) changing the mindsets on how strategic change should be done and by whom.
In addition to his PhD at the EPFL in Engineering (ENAC/TOPO) in 2006, Fadi holds an MBA (2019) at Strathclyde Business School (Glasgow, UK) with specialization in Strategic Management, two master engineering degrees from Greece (1999) and Canada (2002), an Executive Development at INSEAD (2017), and Construction Management at Columbia University (2017).
